wanewman_at_uswest.net wrote: > > Hi, Dave I also have a girlfriend who is very prone to seasickness. She has > had good luck with Scope patch, but test it first on dry land! She weighs in > at about 120 pounds and the first time she tried one on land it really hit her > hard - she was waking up on the couch like 15 hours later, and not remembering > what happened. Even half a patch was enough to really make her dopy. > Obviously dose per pound of body weight is of concern and individual tolerances > may vary a great deal. She does well with a 1/4 of patch, but Thank God she > did not just stick on a full patch while on the water to give it a try! > > I have been fortuanate to have only one badl bought of sea sickness, so I can > comment more on what contributes to my getting sick rather than the cure. On > an earlier post about incapacitated paddlers I talked about an 85 mile Lake > Michigan crossing where two of our group got very ill. [major snipperoo] Wow. That was some story -- you guys have more guts than I do! (And obviously you needed them -- all that hurling!) Re: scope patches: your GF's experience is an extreme reaction to scope, but not unusual, I've been told. Aside from her smaller body mass, there is also considerable variation in rapidity of absorption, inasmuch as the stuff gets into your system via diffusion across the membrane on the (skin side) of the patch. Degree of subcutaneous fat at the location of application probably affects it, too. Scary! -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:29:48 PDT
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